July Cocktail Goings On

Cocktails and brunch at Little Bat Bar

Little Bat (sister bar to Shoreditch’s renowned Callooh Callay), has now launched a brand new weekend brunch menu – and if you’re quick, you can tuck into the delicious dishes for half price!

The new menu, served all-day Saturday and Sunday, is set to cure even the heaviest of hangovers and features a collection of tasty brunch favourites, as well as a list of brunch-inspired cocktails to get your weekend started right. Served to a soundtrack of 80s pop and laid back classics, the launch of the new menu follows a major makeover at Little Bat – giving the bar a lighter, more summery interior, complete with open front terrace, palm print armchairs and a disco ball!

The brunch menu gives the option to go ‘bottomless’ for an additional £25, where guests can choose from bottomless Bloody Marys, prosecco or mimosas for a two hour sitting. The weekend brunch cocktails include the Breakfast Club (Portobello gin, pampelle, cocchi rosa and lemon) and Elevenses (McVities’ Digestive Rumbullion, tea and a shot of Fair cacao liqueur served on the side). Alternatively, guests can opt for the D.I.Y. Bloody Mary trolley… For £10 per person, you can mix up your own vodka or gin-based Bloody Mary drink made from fresh tomato, carrot or beetroot juice and a host of other ingredients from the retro trolley (above), including bacon strips, celery salt, horseradish, turmeric, Worcestershire sauce and fresh lemon or lime juice.

Book in to try the new weekend brunch menu on 7th or 8th of July and enjoy 50% off your food bill!

Secret Garden Supperclubs with Mr Lyan & Doug McMaster

A series of secret supper clubs, where the exact location of the dinner is only revealed the day before, and the menu is equally mysterious? Sounds wonderfully cryptic! This is the idea behind the new Secret Garden Supper Clubs from award-winning duo Mr Lyan (aka cocktail maestro Ryan Chetiywardana) and zero-waste mastermind Doug McMaster, creator of Silo restaurant in Brighton.

Working closely with gardens which have a focus on supporting and giving back to the community around them, the Cub team will use hyperlocal produce grown on site for each of the menus – making every dinner unique. To keep diners on their toes, the postcodes of the dinners will be announced when booking, with the exact location revealed the day before via email and Cub’s social media channels.

Blurring the boundaries of food and drink, the set menu takes guests on a journey where each drink or dish leads beautifully on to the next. With a strong focus on sustainability and minimising waste, abundant ingredients that would normally be discarded are showcased in dishes and drinks.

30th July and 27th August

Tickets are priced £60 per person for all food and drink, and can be booked through lyancub.com | 1st July, 30th July and 27th August

Celebrate the botanical essence of the garden with a floral Rosolio aperitivo-focused menu at this pop-up bar at Fenchurch Terrace, in collaboration with Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto.

The botanically-inspired summer menu will showcase Italicus’s revived blend of the traditional Italian Rosolio category, which was the ‘aperitivo di corte’ during the Renaissance period. Italicus champions the citrus fruit bergamot, and the menu will include the Italicus Spritz,made with Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto and prosecco; and the Negroni Bianco,mixed with Italicus, vermouth and London dry gin.

Rum on a boat with Wood’s

For anyone who fancies themselves as a bit of a pirate at heart – this one’s for you. Wood’s rum have partnered with Ladies & Gentleman bar for their summer-pop up, and are inviting guests to climb onboard the Wood’s Navy Rum Boat. Launching on July 4th on the terrace at Bar 90 in Hackney Wick, the Wood’s Navy Rum menu will showcase twists on traditional cocktail classics including the Mai Tai, Pina Colada Slushy and Zombie in the Wood’s, as well as a range of innovative serves such as the Jungle Bird Twist (a mix of Wood’s Navy Rum, Jamaican rum, pineapple, orgeat, lemon and house aperitif blend).

The boat will be moored at Number 90, and at Granary Square in King’s Cross throughout July and August and guests can kick back and relax on the canal bank and soak up the summer sun with a Wood’s cocktail in hand – or better still, enjoy it aboard the Wood’s barge. The pop-up is free, every day, from midday until midnight.

Hush’s summer ‘Hacienda’ courtyard with Rooster Rojo Tequila

Arrrrriba! We’re getting into the Mexican spirit this summer by heading to Hush Brasserie, who have transformed their courtyard into a vibrant and colourful escape in the centre of London.

Be transported to a Mexican Paraiso with an array of decorated fans, hanging garlands, and a picture-worthy entrance archway. Alongside a multitude of bougainvillea, lush green ferns and cactuses, four bespoke cocktails have been added to the drinks menu. Created using Rooster Rojo Tequila, the Mexican inspired cocktails will ensure taste buds are left tantalised. Highlights include the Frozen Rooster (Rooster Rojo, lime juice, Aperol, fresh grapefruit, strawberries and rose wine with a sugar rim), and La Ultima Palabra (a mix of Rooster Rojo, fresh basil, green chartreuse, Maraschino Luxardo and lime juice).

Gin and oysters at Pomona’s

A sun-soaked terrace and gin cocktails – could it get any better? Well, yes actually… Just add oysters into the equation!

Head to Pomona’s in Notting Hill and catch some rays in their summer terrace, complete with bright British florals, foliage and a brand-new Gin & Oyster Bar. Enjoy a plate of Maldon Oysters – freshly sourced from Goldhanger Creek and River Blackwater in Essex – and settle down under a canopy of fragrant wisteria with one of the bar’s gin specials. Starting from £9 each, must-tries include South Side, (gin muddled with lemon juice, sugar and mint); a Classic G&T Twist (infusing elderflower tonic with strawberry and black pepper); Gin & Ginger, bursting with lime and ginger beer, and a classic Negroni.

Soak up the sun with sherry cocktails at Bar Pepito

If sherry doesn’t immediately scream ‘summer’ to you, then think again… Bar Pepito have created some refreshing and delicious cocktails ideal for this balmy weather.

The specialist ‘Andalusian Bodega’ sherry bar in King’s Cross, just across from mother tapas restaurant, Camino, is nestled in Varnisher’s Yard, a peaceful retreat from the hustle and bustle from the main thoroughfare, and even has an outside terrace for soaking up some sun. The cocktails are Rebujito Xeco fino, (Fever-Tree lemonade, fresh citrus and mint) and Spanish Mule (Xeco fino, Fever Tree ginger ale, peach bitters), and are best when enjoyed with some Spanish-inspired bar snacks. Olives marinaded with lemon and rosemary, anyone?

Diplomático rum fun at The Bloomsbury Club Bar

Nothing screams ‘summer’ like a rum cocktail – especially when quaffed on a fern-lined cocktail terrace, shaded by palm leaves and complete with its own Diplomático bar and vintage traveller artefacts. Looking for a taste of the exotic? Head straight to the Diplomático Palm Terrace.

Inspired by a voyage of discovery to the Americas in the 1930’s, the Bloomsbury Club Bar’s outdoor terrace bar has been transformed into a seductive, palm-decked sanctuary offering guests a bespoke selection of sophisticated tropical inspired cocktails. Guests can then sit back and relax with a complimentary iced Diplomático Planas Daiquiri whilst they peruse the selection of contemporary, sustainably considered cocktails that draw on Don the Beachcomber (the founding father of Tiki) and his travels in the Caribbean and South Pacific back in 1930’s, akin to those of Don Juancho many years before.